Internet History Podcast
A History Of The Internet Era From Netscape To The iPad. A fully interactive history project outlining the people and technologies that made the Internet Era possible. Includes interviews with those involved.
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53. Match.com and Sex.com Founder Gary Kremen
Summary: Gary Kremen is another early internet legend. Kremen was ...
Summary: Gary Kremen is another early internet legend. Kremen was one of the first people to recognize the opportunity that the Internet presented in terms of classifieds advertising. Seizing this opportunity, Kremen founded Match.com, to this day,...
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52. (Ch 7.1) The Birth of Amazon.com
Summary: Finally, the long-promised foray into e-commerce, starting with… not ...
Summary: Finally, the long-promised foray into e-commerce, starting with… not the first… but practically the first… player in the space… and ironically enough, the 800 pound gorilla in the space to this day....
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51. Glenn Fleishman @GlennF Discusses Early Amazon
Summary: You may know Glenn Fleishman from a bunch of ...
Summary: You may know Glenn Fleishman from a bunch of things. He has written for Wired, Fortune, Popular Science, The New York Times, and PCWorld, and contributes regularly to The Economist, The Seattle Times, Macworld, etc. Also, in the last few...
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50. Amazon's Technical Co-Founder and Employee #1, Shel Kaphan
Summary: Shel Kaphan was the very first person hired by ...
Summary: Shel Kaphan was the very first person hired by Jeff Bezos to launch Amazon.com. A lot of people consider Shel to be a co-founder in all but name, because he, along with Paul Davis, was largely responsible for the entire technical...
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49. Lycos Founder and CEO Bob Davis @BobDavisHCP
Summary: Bob Davis was not only the founder of the ...
Summary: Bob Davis was not only the founder of the search engine/web portal known as Lycos, he was also the CEO, first employee, and for a time, the ONLY employee. Bob recounts how Lycos took technology from academia, turned it into a viable company,...
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48. Amazon Director, Customer Service Strategy, Jane Slade
Summary: Jane Slade joined Amazon.com's nascent customer service team when ...
Summary: Jane Slade joined Amazon.com's nascent customer service team when it was a couple of people, some computers, and one phone line. Over the coming years, she helped to build the customer service operations at Amazon into the enormous team...
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47. Analysis Episode with Christina Warren of Mashable.com @film_girl
Summary: Christina Warren is the Senior Tech Analyst for Mashable.com. ...
Summary: Christina Warren is the Senior Tech Analyst for Mashable.com. She came on the podcast to talk with me about Amazon’s place in the tech universe, Jeff Bezos as an entrepreneur, and to break down what might be the four or five...
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46. (Ch 6) A History of Internet Porn
So, I ran across this quote from Star Trek television ...
So, I ran across this quote from Star Trek television producer Rick Berman. He said, “Without porn and Star Trek, there would be no Internet.” That’s a notion that I have to say really kind of rang true to me, in a tonge and cheek...
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45. Excite Co-Founder Ryan McIntyre
Ryan McIntyre, along with his fellow Stanford classmates (Graham Spencer, ...
Ryan McIntyre, along with his fellow Stanford classmates (Graham Spencer, Joe Kraus, Mark Van Haren, Ben Lutch and Martin Reinfried) was one of the "Excite 6" who founded the Excite search engine in the early 1990s. Ryan recounts what it was like...
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44. The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, Co-Founder of Akamai Technologies
Summary: On HBO, the show Silicon Valley is about a ...
Summary: On HBO, the show Silicon Valley is about a young kid who comes up with a billion-dollar algorithm and attempts to build a company around the technology. Well, there's a real-life parallel, because that is what happened to Danny Lewin in the...
